World Trade Center 2001 | BREATHTAKING and HISTORIC VIEW from the top of WTC South Tower. MUST SEE

My feelings on the Twin Towers have changed over the years. Always a devastating loss, always tragedy, but now, over 20 years later, they've become symbols of an entire bygone era. I don't just wish the towers were still here, I wish the world that they've come to represent in my mind were still here.

I worked on Wall St. I watched them being built. I ate my lunch on a bench there listening to the music in the early ‘70’s. It was a good time. No cell phones, no PC’s, no social media. People talked to each other face to face. It was a good time to be alive.

I was 21 when this happened I can't believe how "old" this video looks. I don't remember 2001 feeling so long ago.

9:15 It's a bit creepy that there was a service where you could photoshop yourself and your friends to look like you're jumping off the towers.

The saddest part of this video for me is knowing, 22 years later, that Americans are doing more to hurt each other than any outsider could ever do to hurt them.

this needs to be archived and saved. and redistributed freely, what a golden piece of footage that is, wow !!!

The post cards/artwork beginning at 9:19 are eerie to say the least!

9:15 made my heart stop. That was beyond eerie.

09:15 those pictures are haunting, considering that was going to happen in 66 days, gives me chills!!

At 11:20 the viewer sees the escalator ride approaching the roof of the south tower, at the time the highest open air observation platform in the world. This video brings back great memories of my childhood visit during 1981 when I visited the enclosed 107th floor observatory and the 110th floor roof, only open during good weather. The cool thing about the 107th floor was that given the building's sheer design, one could sit on a narrow metal bench (catch a glimpse at 7:23 and other moments), press your nose against the glass and peer 1,310 feet straight down to the courtyard below. I still have my ticket stub and brochure. Printed on the brochure was that years' catchphrase: "The closest some of us will ever get to heaven." Powerful statement, given the history.

The knowledge that people fell/jumped/were pushed from that height in those buildings is truly heartbreaking

To think every single piece of anything that was in that building was completely gone within a couple of hours 😢 it’s incomprehensible

My god, those cards that kids could digitally make of themselves "falling" from the top of the building at the the 9-minute mark.... Chilling doesn't even begin to describe it, in retrospect! What a precious record of moments lost forever in time. I wish I had made the trip there in 1996 with my young nieces & nephew instead of choosing the Empire State instead.

That view will never be seen again...this is surreal.

For someone who never was lucky enough to visit the towers, this is really awesome to see what it looked like inside. Thanks for this❤️

Could never work in a building like that, terrified of heights!

imagine jumping from that floor down to the ground?! I JUST CAN'T imagine edna cintron waving with hopes that someone could save her life... waving at the edge of the building that high.. 😭

Truly heartbreaking to think that almost 200 people decided to jump from such a height. May all those who lost their lives on 9/11 RIP. ❤

I loved Windows On The World... My heart still breaks when I remember the wonderful staff.

I still can't comprehend - and likely never will - how those people stood at those broken windows and had to decide whether to burn or jump. I just don't think I could make that choice, yet if I didn't it would be made for me. Horrific.